13-03-2012, 06:51 AM
I think it certainly has enough power, in fact more than enough power. It's a 700KV motor so it revs quite a bit higher than the Hacker at 427KV. So I would expect it to want to spin a smaller prop.
If we compair 3 different set ups
1) Gazza's set up = Hacker-427Kv and and a 16X8 prop and it certainly flew well no problems at all
2) My Edge 540 set up = 5055-600 Kv motor and a 15X6 prop also flies well no problems at all
3) Your set up = 5055-700Kv motor and a 13X6 prop I can't see why it shouldn't perform very well also.
The higher reving the motor, the smaller the prop you want.
To me all of these setups look to be in the ball park.
If you looks at Gazza's set up you'll notice that he was using a 5000 pack and that's why he has the longer flight time. My Edge uses a 3000 pack as does your set up so we might expect about 3/5 of the flight time that Gazz was getting but with the benifit of less all up weight.
If you want to spin a bigger prop and reduce the all up weight you could go to a 5S 3000 pack and you might spin a 14X7 or a 4S 3000 pack and spin a 15X8. You could also maintain the same weight by going up in capasity as you come down in cell count (volts) and achieve a similar result
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